Noun
A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others.
The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes.
The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process. Benjamin Harrison
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds & then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. Arundhati Roy
Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go I turn my back to the east, From whence comforts have increased For light cloth seize my brain With frantic pain. William Blake
He should not complain of being cheated who buys the cloth by the sample. Portuguese Proverb
God gives the cold according to the cloth. French Proverb
Measure thy cloth ten times, thou canst cut it but once. Russian Proverb